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young lady / miss / (slang) prostitute / CL: 個|个,
HSK 1
handsome guy / lady-killer / handsome (form of address)
HSK 4
elderly lady (respectful) / esteemed mother / CL:
HSK 3
girl / young woman / young lady / daughter / paternal aunt (old) / CL: 個|个
HSK 3
lady / madam / CL: 個|个, / Miss / Ms
HSK 4
housewife / woman of senior authority in a household / the lady of the house / hostess
HSK 7-9
lady / madam / Mrs. / CL:
HSK 4
girl / young lady
HSK 7-9
Church of Our Lady / Frauenkirche
little girl who is older than another young child (e.g. her playmate) / (neologism c. 2017) (slang) young lady (amiable form of address for a young woman of about one's own age or a little older)
Chang'e, the lady in the moon (Chinese mythology) / one of the Chang'e series of PRC lunar spacecraft
HSK 7-9
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  *娘* | 娘* | *娘
mother / young lady / (coll.) effeminate
HSK 7-9
beautiful face (of a young lady)
young lady of note; debutante
female proprietor / lady boss / boss's wife
middle-aged but still attractive woman / lady of a certain age
middle-aged but still attractive woman / lady of a certain age
(bird species of China) Lady Amherst's pheasant (Chrysolophus amherstiae)
paternal great-aunt (father's father's sister) / (respectful form of address for a married woman used by members of her parents' family) married daughter / (brassy self-reference used by a woman in an altercation) I; me; this lady here / (coll.) form of address for an unmarried girl or woman, expressing affection or reproach
as a lotus flower breaking the surface (idiom); surpassingly beautiful (of young lady's face or old gentleman's calligraphy)
lady's private room or bedroom / boudoir
lady's chamber / boudoir / harem
my old mother / I, this old woman / my old lady (colloquial) / maternal grandmother / midwife
Lady Gaga (1986-), US pop singer
(slang) maiden; young lady (orthographic borrowing from Japanese 乙女 "otome", used esp. to refer to romantic media and games aimed at women)
Fu Hao (c. 1200 BC), or Lady Hao, female Chinese general of the late Shang Dynasty 商朝
(dialect) elderly lady / wet nurse / Catholic nun
(literary) (of a young lady) to be awaiting betrothal
lit. gifted scholar, beautiful lady (idiom) / fig. pair of ideal lovers
bamboo fungus; veiled lady mushroom (Phallus indusiatus)
wise and virtuous woman / lady
Hu Ziwei (1970-), PRC lady TV presenter
remarried lady (contemptuous term) / lady who marries for a second time
(old) dowager / old lady (title for the mother of a noble or an official)
unmarried lady / virgin / Virgo (star sign)
She Xiang (c. 1361-1396), lady who served as Yi ethnic group leader in Yunnan in early Ming times
father's mother / granny (dialect) / respectful form of address for older lady
upper-class woman / lady (old)
lit. beautiful lady, gifted scholar (idiom) / fig. pair of ideal lovers
boudoir / lady's dressing room
women's love / passion (felt by lady)
(Internet slang) young lady (Cantonese-influenced alternative to 小姐姐)
okra (Hibiscus esculentus) / lady's fingers
trousseau / lady's dressing case
young lady of the house / wife of the young master
young unmarried lady role in Chinese opera
Lady Macbeth
heavenly beauty, jewel colors (idiom); unusually beautiful lady
old lady
First Lady (wife of the head of state)
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *闺* | 闺* | *闺
small arched door / boudoir; lady's chamber / (fig.) women
well-bred young lady
old lady
charactercopystroke orderAIpronouncebaikeskritterexampleCorrect
  *娭* | 娭* | *娭
see 娭姐, father's mother / granny (dialect) / respectful form of address for older lady
old lady / Madam (polite address) / CL:
court lady / palace maid / traditional painting of beautiful women
Lao Ai (-238 BC), man of Qin famous for his giant penis / in fiction, bogus eunuch and the consort of king Ying Zheng's mother lady Zhao
lady's chamber
to be particularly attentive to (an attractive young lady or man etc); to fawn upon (an influential politician etc); to court sb's favor; to ingratiate oneself
lady who has given birth twice
old lady / (old woman's self-reference) I, me
a lady's room (honorific)
a lady's chamber / boudoir
Parish of Our Lady of Fatima (Macau) / Freguesia de Nossa Senhora de Fátima
okra (Hibiscus esculentus) / lady's fingers
noble lady / (honorific) your daughter
fox lady / in folk stories, a beautiful girl who will seduce you then reveal herself as a ghost
Annunciation (Christian festival on 25th March) / Lady day
a lady's room (honorific)
okra (Hibiscus esculentus) / lady's fingers
lady's demeanor / norms expected of women (in former times)


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